Main entry:

Tilley, Helen, 1968-

Title & Author:

Africa as a living laboratory : empire, development, and the problem of scientific knowledge, 1870-1950 / Helen Tilley.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Description:

xiv, 496 pages : illustrations, maps (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-483 and index.
An imperial laboratory : scientific societies, geopolitics, and territorial acquisitions -- A development laboratory : the African Research Survey, the machinery of knowledge, and imperial coordination -- An environmental laboratory : "native" agriculture, tropical infertility, and ecological models of development -- A medical laboratory : infectious diseases, ecological methods, and modernization -- A racial laboratory : imperial politics, race prejudice, and mental capacity -- An anthropological laboratory : ethnographic research, imperial administration, and magical knowledge -- A living laboratory : ethnosciences, field sciences, and the problem of epistemic pluralism.

Summary:

'Africa as a Living Laboratory' is a study of the relationship between imperialism & scientific expertise - environmental, medical, racial & anthropological - in the colonization of British Africa.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9780226803463 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226803465 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226803470 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0226803473 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

African Research Survey.
Research Africa History 20th century.
Research Africa History 21st century.
Imperialism and science Africa History 20th century.
Imperialism and science Africa History 21st century.
Biomedical Research history
Colonialism history
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Impérialisme et sciences Afrique Histoire 20e siècle.
Impérialisme et sciences Afrique Histoire 21e siècle.
Médecine Histoire 20e siècle.
Médecine Histoire 21e siècle.
Subsaharan Africa.
United Kingdom.
science.
research.
colonialism.
Science.
British colonies.
Colonization.
Imperialism and science.
Research.
Forschung
Naturwissenschaften
Imperialismus
Kolonialismus
Kolonie
Imperialism.
Anthropological aspects.
Agricultural development.
Eugenics.
Racial theories.
Ecological aspects.
Africa Research History 20th century.
Africa Research History 21st century.
Africa Colonization History 20th century.
Africa Colonization History 21st century.
Great Britain Colonies Africa History 20th century.
Great Britain Colonies Africa History 21st century.
Africa.
Afrique Recherche Histoire 20e siècle.
Afrique Recherche Histoire 21e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne Colonies Afrique Histoire 20e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne Colonies Afrique Histoire 21e siècle.
Afrique.
Afrika
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 298063
Call No.: BIB 244359
Status: Available